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Released 11.11.11 by Siberia / New Planes
I n t r o d u c i n g the Higher Planes Sound Book ~ a limited edition compilation cassette + riso print poster.
TRACKLIST
01. MINIMAL WHERE (INSTRUMENTAL) RITES WILD
02. SLIP TIME YOUNG MAGIC
03. MIXDOWN MASTER NATHAN GRAY
04. GURU SIBERIA PLANES
05. ANT SMELLER BUM CREEK
06. CERAMIC POTS HI GOD PEOPLE
07. BREEZE QUIET EVENINGS
08. DARK SIDE OF THE SUN RED ELECTRIC RAINBOW
09. TERMINAL BEACH FORCES
10. LINES THE SCHOOL OF RADIANT LIVING
11. TIKHAL DYLAN MARTORELL
12. TNEIBMA - ERIK OMEN
13. HONEY FALLS ON VELOUR ANGEL EYES
14. NATURAL COVER JONATHAN HOCHMAN
15. 4_20 DEEP MAGIC
"This cassette is interested in messages and methods of filtering modern torrents of data. It is about consciousness, listening and believes the root of magic is contact with intuition and instinct.
As self-educators the makers on this cassette have experimented with methods and techniques of meditation. Referencing forefathers and mothers of occult and popular culture, but not limited by dogmas, it is a research bulletin of self-improvised rituals for spiritual and psychic development.
With respect to life as a dualism between good and evil, solidarity and tribalism, harmony and discord this bulletin has been produced on limited edition cassette, where track selection is uneasy and one must accept the flow, accept the whole.
As the backbone technology of the electronic age, the magnetic tape inside a cassette’s shell can be reprogrammed. This mirrors the human body and mind. With access to music rituals – a means of cleansing in primitive cultures - we can erase our conditioning and rewrite the programs stored in our head.
With use the cassette will break. With the death of the mechanism we are reminded everything is temporary and to question what is beyond the concrete plane?
Music is a universal mother tongue and trance-inducer. By making and listening to good music one can enter an atmosphere. In this atmosphere experiences can be supernatural with no recourse to logic, psychic messages can be sent and received, and one can connect to higher planes, beyond thought.
By playing this cassette messages will ripple eternally on sine waves and be sent into the universe. Through their inner resonances the universe can be cast within us. Nathan Gray’s synth jam relishes surprise and discord in ‘Mixdown Master’. Erik Omen lets the listener drop in or out of their renovated ambient atmosphere, ‘Tneibma’. Hi God People improvise with ‘Ceramic Pots’. Deep Magic guides a celestial tour in ‘4_20’. The School of Radiant Living’s pop chant, ‘Lines’ reflects on life’s many avenues to the same destination.
We are individuals with the power to shape our environment and share our research with whoever is interested. The world has reached crisis point. Music is a cleansing, manifesting and communing agent. Magic is natural and linked with consciousness, a tribal movement that can be assisted by access to tools.
Use these ‘sound peaces’ in your magic rituals or record your own." Lisa Lerkenfeldt
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Stream here. Released 11.11.11 by Siberia / New Planes I n t r o d u c i n g the Higher Planes Sound Book ~ a limited edition compilation cassette + riso print poster. ...CONTACThttp://youngmagicsounds.com/CONTACT-1
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http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/TEPOZTLANMon, 09 Feb 2015 06:56:01 +0000Young Magic 1093035
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Mixtape for Warmer Climes HERE.
It’s the first day of 2011. I’m living in a small mountain town near Tepoztlan (above) in Mexico and recording. It’s mostly jungle up here with a pyramid down the road which still amazes me how the Aztecs built it so high up in the clouds 600 years ago. It’s been a crazy and beautiful 2010, even the hard times like lost cards stolen gear weird police with machine guns asshole border security having no money or being lost with no language. Here are some songs that have followed me... Young Magic
1. Can | Vitamin C
A delicate, pulsing trip. These sounds take me back to long nights of conversation, understanding, and the type of old-school head nodding you did when first listening to records as a teenager. Sift through their back catalogue to find so many other diamonds.
2. Dorothy Ashby | For Some We Loved
At first it could sound kitsch, but spending time with these sounds I heard a women’s genuine soul searching on record in a post Coltrane world. Dashes of harp float over vivid stories and middle eastern percussion carry these stories along like a soundtrack to an exotic film real or imagined. I like when people explore a little more and make albums like these. Colorful winding sounds remind me of that feeling as a kid reading adventure books about faraway lands like Persia or Japan or Mars.
3. Christy Azuma & Uppers International | Din Ya Sugri
I need a time machine. This is my kind of dance music; makes me feel a little more human for 7 minutes of the day, and then the rest just seems not quite as interesting. Do you ever get this feeling?
4. De Frank & His Professionals | Afe Ato Yen Bio
I really need a time machine. Find this.
5. Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes | Paix
Her voice is so goddamn commanding. Melts me. Every single time that first vocal drops at around the 10 minute mark I get that shiver run my spine and hit my brain direct. Zap. One of those journeys that either forces the room silent and slip into a new world, or you switch to some background music like Weezy’s latest records and split.
6. Taking Heads | Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
I remember this first jumping out of the stereo and I didn’t know what to do, kind of stopped me in my tracks and threw my hips and head into a new world. From that day on I found out everything about the people who made this record and My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, why Tina watched David when she played, why David likes bicycles. A mild obsession. I loved the basslines, it’s playfulness, how Byrne and Eno took control and shaped this new beast from pre-existing sounds. I loved the rhythm, a sharp snake gliding though the record. It danced and I liked it. I still do.
7. The Rotary Connection | Turn Me On
After the first verse, and everything goes ahhhhhhhhhhhh and kind of faints into the chorus I go ahhhhhhhhhhh and feel like grabbing the sun even it burns a bit. Heard this on a Chess compilation years ago and flipped, tripped into a world of big bands, sharp studios and warm gear. See I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun for more ahhhhhhhhhh moments.
8. Flying Lotus | Breathe Something/Stellar Star
Float to space. Snaps me back to a time of dark rooms and warm multi-colored praying mantis-like creatures caressing my body in higher dimensional planes. That sounds ridiculous, I know... But what other real way do I have to describe this? Swimming in a new pool.
9. The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations
Every year as a kid we’d take long road trips down the East Coast of Australia and the first disc I claimed from my folks was a BB best of. The compositions, the harmonies... One of those sounds thats followed me through life popping it’s head up in all the right places. The way Brian Wilson works these individual recordings together like the most intricate and beautiful puzzle still splits my mind: four separate studios to record this? Toes in a sandpit under the studio piano to get feeel? I think he was hearing things the rest of us don’t.
10. Ebo Taylor And The Sweet Beans | Odofo Nyi Akyiri Biara
This feels so good man, straight up. Spent all last night shaking to this song whilst watching the clock count down to 12. West African music shouldn’t work so well in Central America. I need a translator.
+11. Samiyam | Deathrace/Moon Shoes
My neck is sore in diagonal patterns.
+12. Jay Dee | Beat 05
My neck again. This time my heart and soul as well. Even these sketches have such a magic touch.
+13. James Blake | Klavierwerke
Head nodder x 3 from somewhere between the planes. Really feelin this negative space.
+14. Fugazi | Closed Caption Demo
I used to watch the Jem Cohen film Instrument a lot. To my ears at the time it was unashamedly creative, raw unguarded and real. I loved the ideas, words and ferocious energy, but they’e also really beautiful in the slower moments as well when dub and space crept up through wirey crescendos. From fourteen years old I’d start punk bands with friends playing basements and DIY spaces and most of the time this band was in mind.
+15. Wire | Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW
While we’re here, another four guys that made total sense to me during these years. I liked the beautifully dry sense of humor floating under all the situationist leanings and minimal warped song structures, and with this one I particularly loved the title. I have a thing for maps.
+16. The Go-Betweens | The House Jack Kerouac Built
Robert Forster used to live around the corner and would come by sometimes because my friends parents sold him organic vegetables. I didn’t really know who he was then, but down the track found a lot of time for The Go-Betweens songwriting and this wistful sense of nostalgia they seem capture so well. So many of these songs are now stamped to different sections of my life growing up, clearly with heart, and in the best possible way. Sounds to make a wandering boy homesick.
+17. Roy Ayers | Everybody Loves The Sunshine
This one explains itself.
+18. Erykah Badu | Incense (feat. Kirsten Agnesta)
Last up. Late at night, headphones, hashish and maybe someone close tucked in under your arm. Leveler. Madlib sounds are smoother than ever. On repeat whilst drifting into dreamworld. Never quite sure what to put on afterwards though... Mixtape for Warmer Climes HERE. It’s the first day of 2011. I’m living in a small mountain town near Tepoztlan (above) in Mexico and recording. It’s...UNDER THE RADARhttp://youngmagicsounds.com/UNDER-THE-RADAR
http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/UNDER-THE-RADARMon, 09 Feb 2015 06:52:18 +0000Young Magic 9343889Forgotten Songs: Young Magic’s Isaac Emmanuel on Mariah’s “Shinzo No Tobira”
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(Forgotten Songs is our recurring series in which we revisit a noteworthy song that has flown under the radar for too long. In this edition, Young Magic's Isaac Emmanuel writes about Mariah's "Shinzo No Tobira.")
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Some time ago I purchased an external hard drive from the store, carefully unpacked the contents, spent four hours filling it up with music I had on my computer, meticulously packaged it back up and returned it promptly to the same store. When the salesman at the counter asked if it had been opened, I returned with a pause, then uttered, "No." He was studying my face, so I placed some extra emphasis on my denial. I could sense he had noticed the slight look away, the palpable air of sudden indecisiveness, and yet the large man opposite me had a policy to follow. I had told him no.
The idea that someone would unpack a life's worth of songs entirely without context was too exciting for me not to act on. The further from my taste the better, I had thought. I was hoping for some kind of surprise in a stranger's routine: a momentary reset in the day...or at least my utopian idea of that situation happening. The truth was that it more likely ended up in the bargain bin of Best Buy, followed by the stomach of a dumpster, and eventually at home atop electronic landfill in Guiyu.
A forgotten song often casts a strange light. Anaïs Nin said, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.” The very nature of making a record is exactly that: to make some kind of permanent record of sound in a moment, so it can be re-experienced beyond the limits of time. But a forgotten song is different; it carries with it a new type of energy. Last week I had a sense of this feeling after an impromptu visit to an abandoned resort in upstate New York. There was a moment standing inside a large empty pool where Frank Sinatra had spent his summer holidays in which I could almost hear the echoes of children playing. The Portuguese have a word for this feeling that isn't translatable in English: a mix of happy and sad, a type of melancholia toward something once loved but since forgotten. They call it suadade.
In retrospect, my hard drive project was a practice in freeing songs. Or something like that. And one of the artists I thought about the most when handing that little device back over the counter was a band called Mariah.
The brainchild of Japanese saxophonist and composer Yasuaki Shimizu, Mariah released a short yet prolific burst of recorded material over five albums between 1980 and 1983. Their final album, the aptly titled Utakata no Hibi (1983) weaves a future landscape of seventh world pop: something from the depths of Japan's precise studio environments which simultaneously feels as if it is blindly reaching for the stars. The song Shinzo No Tobira (loosely translated as My Life Is Big) is one of my personal favorites.
I first heard the song years ago from Melati Malay (my oracle for all good things). It begins with a warm drum loop, some soft coos, a floating synth and then the bass takes over—a rhythm not far from Eno and Byrne's cut and paste wanderings on My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Somehow though, the experience is subtler: more from everywhere at once. The delicate, percussive timbres seemed to have a timeless quality, and the songwriting exhibited an intimacy I hadn’t felt on other recordings for some time. It was wonderful. And there it was hiding second last on side D of a double LP, at exactly 4'40" in length.
The vocals on My Life Is Big seem to dance across the landscape, half-sung, half-uttered as if it they were tracked in one single, effortless take. Lyrics are split between Japanese and Armenian throughout the album. I scoured the web for translations and came up with nothing. I began to wonder if this song had even existed. A few years later though, I stumbled across a light on Yasuaki Shimizu's site.
Lyrics: Seta Evanian, Julie Fowell
Translation from Armenian: Seta Evanian, Johnny Barrett
My life is big
I'm walking
My life is big
I'm walking
It's soft wood
How long
The sun big
New picture
My heart open
A little red
The picture
Multicoloured
My heart open
A little red
Soft wood
How long
A quick piano chord arrives and finishes the song abruptly. A palate cleanser of sorts, like being quickly whisked away and prepared for the next five minutes: each song its own little universe. I'm sitting in a café in Montréal as rain gently pitter-patters the sidewalk and listening to it again gives me the impression it was written deliberately to soundtrack this environment. Yet I've had this experience with My Life Is Big in so many different landscapes, such varying locales. I'm always searching for this quality in a song: a shapeshifting, protean frequency.
Yasuaki Shimizu has released a large body of work throughout his career and is probably most well known for his renditions of Bach. His Cello Suites were recorded in some unconventional locations including a palazzo in Italy and a mine in Japan in order to capture the immense natural reverb of each environment. But his early left-field collaborative pop under the name Mariah lives in a different space entirely, almost like finding a naïve lover's diary and peeking inside at the musings of a wordsmith, unable to comprehend how it could have only ever lived life under a single bed.
It's nice to know that with the recent resurgence of interest including a Japanese re-issue of Utakata no Hibi and original 12” pressings popping up online, My Life is Big is one humble pool that won't be forgotten.
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Forgotten Songs: Young Magic’s Isaac Emmanuel on Mariah’s “Shinzo No Tobira” (Forgotten Songs is our recurring series in which we revisit a noteworthy...PRESShttp://youngmagicsounds.com/PRESS
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383"data-hi-res="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-10.54.57-PM_1340_c.png" /><img src="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.28.49-PM_51_670.png" width="670" height="544" width_o="1750" height_o="1422" src_o="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.28.49-PM_51_1750.png" data-mid="50391102" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 544"data-hi-res="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.28.49-PM_51_1340_c.png" /><img src="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.30.02-PM_670.png" width="670" height="611" width_o="1802" height_o="1644" src_o="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.30.02-PM_1802.png" data-mid="50391121" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 611"data-hi-res="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.30.02-PM_1340_c.png" /><img src="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.30.43-PM_670.png" width="670" height="455" width_o="2296" height_o="1560" src_o="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.30.43-PM_2296.png" data-mid="50391127" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 455"data-hi-res="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3281742/Screen-Shot-2015-02-09-at-11.30.43-PM_1340_c.png" />
THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE FADER
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
XLR8R
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY
DAZED
VICE
SPIN
PITCHFORK
BBC
THE GUARDIAN
FILTER
MIXMAG
MTV
NBC
NYLON
GEORGIE
VILLAGE VOICE
CMJ
"Lush and Immersive...summons an elusive mood of longing within the sonic wonderment."
New York Times
"Mesmerizing and dreamlike, Melt is an extraordinary release, seeking endless complexity and intrigue."
Performer Magazine
"A cracking debut of invention and intrigue by this New York based trio. The best way to experience Melt is to sink into it shorn of expectations. Here, the listener can really let the bubbling melodies, chanted mantras and delicious textures take hold. Once bitten, it’s unlikely Melt will let go of one’s attentions soon. An exquisite new breed to behold."
BBC
"Melt is the alternate universe you’ve been searching for. A stunning debut."
The Music
"Some records are defined by the time and place of their creation, but Young Magic's piecemeal approach has the opposite effect. It doesn't sound like it came from a certain somewhere, but rather, everywhere. At once pulverizing and pristine, it's an HD stunner."
Pitchfork
"An enormous wall of sound anchored by textures both organic and electronic, It has the power to induce a trance. Young Magic hypnotize."
Village Voice
"Blending world beats and shimmering sonic glitter."
Q Magazine
"Woozy, smacked-out sounds that mix elements of shoegaze, African rhythms, psych rock and left-field hip hop. In the shimmering celestial beats and clanking, Far Eastern polyrhythmic dreamscapes, they forge a magicalworld of trippy vocal electronica."
MixMag
"A soundclash between Burial, Cocteau Twins and Animal Collective"
Uncut Magazine
"Complicated and beautiful, this is one of the most intricate and interesting debuts in recent years."
All About Jazz
"From the album’s very first strains, you know something mysterious, maybe even mystical, is afoot. Melt stretches swaths of symphonic vocals and swooping sonic mayhem over oceanic drumbeats, tracking ever forward into electronic sensory overload. How lucky that in the process they strike a rich vein of pop gold." Filter Magazine
THE NEW YORK TIMES THE FADER INTERVIEW MAGAZINE XLR8R RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY DAZED VICE SPIN PITCHFORK BBC THE GUARDIAN FILTER MIXMAG MTV NBC ...Rough Trade NYChttp://youngmagicsounds.com/Rough-Trade-NYC
http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/Rough-Trade-NYCSun, 08 Feb 2015 06:20:02 +0000Young Magic 9338021<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.02.03-PM_670.png" width="670" height="406" width_o="1051" height_o="637" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.02.03-PM_1051.png" data-mid="50361096" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 406"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.02.03-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.59-PM_670.png" width="670" height="404" width_o="1050" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.59-PM_1050.png" data-mid="50361059" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 404"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.59-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.42-PM_670.png" width="670" height="405" width_o="1047" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.42-PM_1047.png" data-mid="50361093" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 405"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.42-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.42-PM_670.png" width="670" height="406" width_o="1049" height_o="636" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.42-PM_1049.png" data-mid="50361056" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 406"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.42-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.07-PM_670.png" width="670" height="407" width_o="1051" height_o="639" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.07-PM_1051.png" data-mid="50361076" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 407"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.07-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.11-PM_670.png" width="670" height="408" width_o="1053" height_o="642" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.11-PM_1053.png" data-mid="50361049" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 408"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.11-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.00-PM_670.png" width="670" height="423" width_o="1003" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.00-PM_1003.png" data-mid="50361042" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 423"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-10.59.00-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.00.52-PM_670.png" width="670" height="404" width_o="1048" height_o="632" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.00.52-PM_1048.png" data-mid="50361069" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 404"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.00.52-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.00.40-PM_670.png" width="670" height="402" width_o="1048" height_o="630" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.00.40-PM_1048.png" data-mid="50361063" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 402"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.00.40-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.18-PM_670.png" width="670" height="404" width_o="1053" height_o="636" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.18-PM_1053.png" data-mid="50361090" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 404"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.18-PM_1000.png" />
<img src="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.52-PM_670.png" width="670" height="407" width_o="1050" height_o="638" src_o="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.52-PM_1050.png" data-mid="50361094" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 407"data-hi-res="http://payload351.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/9338021/Screen-Shot-2015-02-08-at-11.01.52-PM_1000.png" />
Rough Trade NYC
Photos: Chad Kamenshine
Rough Trade NYC Photos: Chad Kamenshine DOLDRUMS X YOUNG MAGIChttp://youngmagicsounds.com/DOLDRUMS-X-YOUNG-MAGIC
http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/DOLDRUMS-X-YOUNG-MAGICMon, 03 Nov 2014 11:46:37 +0000Young Magic 3294461<img src="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3294461/REMIX-LP-2.4_670.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="871" height_o="871" src_o="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3294461/REMIX-LP-2.4_871.jpg" data-mid="50363232" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 670"data-hi-res="http://payload49.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/3294461/REMIX-LP-2.4_871.jpg" />
Doldrums - Egypt (Young Magic Remix)
Doldrums - Egypt (Young Magic Remix) GLPGS X WOOSHIE X YOUNG MAGIChttp://youngmagicsounds.com/GLPGS-X-WOOSHIE-X-YOUNG-MAGIC
http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/GLPGS-X-WOOSHIE-X-YOUNG-MAGICMon, 03 Nov 2014 11:46:34 +0000Young Magic 2766118<img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/2766118/YWARMX.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="905" height_o="905" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/2766118/YWARMX_o.jpg" data-mid="14033902" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 670"data-hi-res="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/2766118/YWARMX_o.jpg" />
'You With Air' (Galapagoose and Wooshie's Nang Nang Mix)
Artwork by Leif Podhajsky
Via XLR8R 'You With Air' (Galapagoose and Wooshie's Nang Nang Mix) Artwork by Leif Podhajsky Via XLR8RTHE ALTJIRA MIXhttp://youngmagicsounds.com/THE-ALTJIRA-MIX
http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/THE-ALTJIRA-MIXMon, 03 Nov 2014 11:46:33 +0000Young Magic 1807624<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1807624/The_Altjira_Mixtape.jpg" width="670" height="687" width_o="905" height_o="929" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1807624/The_Altjira_Mixtape_o.jpg" data-mid="8918866" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 687"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1807624/The_Altjira_Mixtape_o.jpg" />
The Altjira Mixtape
The Voice of Cassandre
France / Belgium
Download HERE The Altjira Mixtape The Voice of Cassandre France / Belgium Download HERE SUGAR MOUNTAIN http://youngmagicsounds.com/SUGAR-MOUNTAIN
http://youngmagicsounds.com/following/youngmagicsounds.com/SUGAR-MOUNTAINMon, 03 Nov 2014 11:46:28 +0000Young Magic 1497776Sugar Mountain - Summit of Music & Art
<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/10a_905_670.jpeg" width="670" height="504" width_o="905" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/10a_905_905.jpeg" data-mid="50358562" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 504"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/10a_905_905.jpeg" /><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/10c_905_670.jpeg" width="670" height="504" width_o="905" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/10c_905_905.jpeg" data-mid="50358565" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 504"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/10c_905_905.jpeg" /><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/B_905_670.jpeg" width="670" height="446" width_o="905" height_o="603" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/B_905_905.jpeg" data-mid="50358566" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/B_905_905.jpeg" /><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/C_905_670.jpeg" width="670" height="446" width_o="905" height_o="603" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/C_905_905.jpeg" data-mid="50358569" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/C_905_905.jpeg" /><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo-1_670.jpeg" width="670" height="429" width_o="689" height_o="442" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo-1_689.jpeg" data-mid="50358571" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 429"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo-1_689.jpeg" /><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo-2_670.jpeg" width="670" height="358" width_o="720" height_o="385" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo-2_720.jpeg" data-mid="50358573" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 358"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo-2_720.jpeg" /><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo_670.jpeg" width="670" height="371" width_o="720" height_o="399" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo_720.jpeg" data-mid="50358574" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 371"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/photo_720.jpeg" />
<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/Thomas.jpg" width="670" height="476" width_o="905" height_o="643" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/Thomas_o.jpg" data-mid="7315857" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 476"data-hi-res="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/65398/1497776/Thomas_o.jpg" />
photo by Thomas CampbellSugar Mountain - Summit of Music & Art photo by Thomas Campbell